サムスン (Samsung) SCX-3405W All-in-One

Linuxの互換性の検討

The Samsung SCX-3405W is a All-in-One laser printer, which can be connected per USB as well as per WiFi. The device has the USB ID 04e8:344f

Bus 002 Device 006: ID 04e8:344f Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

The SCX-3405W is automatically recognized since Ubuntu 12.04 and is supported by the OpenSource drivers of SPLIX, although the model is not yet mentioned on its web page.

The configuration of the printer and the integrated scanners is described in detail for Debian based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu).

Printer

To access the printer the “Samsung Unified Driver” is needed. This driver can be downloaded per hand, without using the package management system of the Linux distribution, or it can be added to the package management system. The second way has the advantage that updates of the driver will automatically be provided to the system.

The first and quicker way is the download of the driver per hand from the Samsung homepage, unpacking the downloaded file, and executing the included program autorun

sudo sh autorun

In the graphical installer the model SCX-3400 has to be selected and eventually the printer port (depending on used connection).

To install the Samsung Unified Driver with the package management system of the Linux distribution (Debian or Ubuntu), i.e. from http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/, the corresponding repository has to added to the system. Therefore, one has to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and include the additional repository:

deb http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ debian extra

Furthermore, the corresponding GPG key has to be added to the Apt system, to guarantee the validity of the later on downloaded files. After downloadin the key by:

sudo wget http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/suldr.gpg

the key gets added to the Apt system:

sudo apt-key add suldr.gpg

Afterwards, the APT database has to be updated and the new packages can be installed:

It can happen that the printer is not found if he is in standby modus while searching for it. Although the printer gest automatically startet by the netdiscovery search this starting procedure can take longer than the search itself. In this case the search simply should be started twice before the printer goes back to the standby modus.

As soon as the printer was found he can be accessed by the Linux standard scanning tools like “Xsane Image scanning program”.

If the Samsung SCX-3406W is not isted in the SANE configuration file he has to be added by hand at the end of the file /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf

sudo nano /etc/sane.d/xerox_mfp.conf

One simply adds one entry with the USB ID of the printer:

# Samsung SCX-3400
usb 0x04e8 0x344f

Additionally, the printer has to be added to the file /lib/udev/rules.d/40-libsane.rules :